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That's why there are plenty who argue that the blame--and the answer--must lie squarely with fat people themselves. When Iowa Senator Tom Harkin, a Democrat, attacked junk food in schools two years ago, then Democratic Senator Zell Miller, whose home state of Georgia is the location of Coca-Cola headquarters, scoffed, "Our kids are not obese because of what they are eating in our lunchrooms at school. They are obese, frankly, because they sit around on their duffs watching MTV and playing video games, and to do something about that requires the role of the parents...
...skeptical that the fraud she pointed out to him could be problematic, she testified. And after their meeting, Lay continued to tell investors, analysts and employees that everything was fine at Enron. "It was just assumed that I was wrong," Watkins said. "It was a blatant lie...
...policy level yet.” Graney said that the group was looking ahead and seeking to secure its longterm relationship with CPS. “We’re not reacting to situations in Cambridge Public Schools, but we’re looking ahead to challenges that lie before CityStep and trying to work with our contacts in Cambridge Public Schools to preemptively respond,” he said. While acknowledging the importance of standardized test results, Fantini, who was first elected to the School Committee in 1981 and has served longer than any other member, said that there...
Best or worst lie you’ve ever told: At summer camp when I was 13 I convinced this girl that I only weighed 40 pounds, because I was a mutant and had hollow bones like a bird...
...Slovakia. But absent any smoking-gun evidence of Iran maintaining a weapons program, and considering Washington's credibility problem after the Iraq WMD fiasco, the U.S. and its allies may struggle to maintain the momentum of efforts to turn up the heat on Tehran. Indeed, their best hope may lie in Iran rattling its own sabers so much that it actually alienates the two powers it needs most at the moment, Russia and China...